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Dipping his hand between the denim he__ parted, Logan thought he would feel cotton, but as his fingers brushed over wiry hair, he groaned out loud. __ommando? You came to see me fucking commando?

That__ probably the most sincere thing that I__e ever heard come out of your mouth.__ogan lowered his eyes to Tate__ hand. __ow, that__ not true. I was very sincere this morning when I told you that I loved sucking your____on__ ruin it,_ Tate interrupted.

Can you sharpen this for me, please?__ogan leaned across the table and took the pencil from him. __ou want me to play with your pencil, Tate?___ilarious. The sharpener is right by you. You just have to pick it up and slide it in.__s soon as the words left his mouth and Logan__ quirked into an arrogant line, Tate bit his tongue.__eally? Did you really just say that to me?__eeling more comfortable than ever with Logan and this group, Tate shrugged and nodded. Time to give it to Logan as good as he gives.__eah. Is there a problem? You just line it up...and slide it in.___ou know, Tate____on't do it._ Tate cut him off as he moved his foot, the one he__ had sitting between Logan__ feet all night, so his shin bumped Logan__ calf.__o what?___ay something dirty. I know you're dying to, but just sharpen the pencil.__ogan picked up the sharpener and made a big show of inserting the tip in the hole.__esus,_ Shelly muttered from beside Logan. __ thought Rachel and Cole were bad.

Glancing at the bottle of tequila in Tate__ hand, Logan questioned much more calmly than he felt, __ow full was that?__ate lifted the quarter-empty bottle and shrugged. __nopened. Why?

The first thing that came to mind was an angel. Her hair flowing and shiny. Her legs dangling, long and smooth. She looked perfect where she was, like a painting.And then I remembered that Satan was also an angel.

As you know from our trips to Belmont Park in San Diego, I can scream like a girl when required._ he said.Angie laughed then she grabbed him by the face and planted a kiss on the lips so fierce, Mel wondered if it was Angie__ way of putting a lip-lock protective spell on her man. She hoped it was and she hoped it worked.

This particular song__ just something that__ been floating around inside me for a long time,_ Tate went on. __s she the one who got away? Yeah. She is. But it__ because she got away that I__hat we,_ he clarified, __re all here now._ __ow do you mean?_ the interviewer asked. Tate was silent for several heartbeats, then said, __hen I met her, I was playing ball. She knew I wasn__ that good. But she also saw a talent in me I didn__ even know I had. She__ the one who encouraged my music. I lost her after that summer, but it__ because I lost her that Kendrick was even formed. So yeah, she is __verything._ She__ everything I have and everything I__ missing._ __ould it be safe to assume you work as hard as you do because you__e trying to prove to her what she__ missing?_ the interviewer asked. __o,_ Tate answered. __ot really._ __hat__ a load of crap,_ someone muttered in the background. __kay,_ Tate said louder. __aybe it__ a little true. Did I hope she__ one day hear one of these songs about her and call me up? Sure. I think that__ the whole point of tracks like this. That there__ hope. I mean, that__ what life__ really about, right? Without hope, what the hell does a person have?___ lot of___EEP___ng fun,_ Jace interjected.

I can__ change the past, Tate. I wish I could, because I__ go back and relive every day that I existed without you, and I__ make sure that you smiled._ My eyes burned with regret, and I saw the pools in her beautiful blues, too. __very minute of my future belongs to you.

She's absolutely beautiful. Her hope is beautiful. The smile on her face is beautiful. The tears streaming down her cheeks are beautiful.Herloveisbeautiful.